“When rebels come to justify the hunt for Jews in the city of Anne Frank”

Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Every week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox. He published War diary. It is the West that we are assassinating (Fayard, 2024). He is also president of Lawyers Without Borders.

The rebellious deputies, crossing a new level in infamy, are justifying the hunt for Jews in the city of Anne Frank. To Fabien Roussel, hardly suspect of excessive allegiance to Zionism, who wrote aboutLast night in Amsterdam, supporters were chased away, threatened and lynched in the street of a European city because they are Jewish.the France insoumise MP from Ille-et-Vilaine, Marie Mesmeur responded without shame: “These people were not lynched because they were Jewish, but because they were racist and supported genocide.».

With remarkable speed, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau referred the matter to the Prosecutor's Office for apologizing for a crime. Avocats Sans Frontières and several injured Israeli citizens will also contact the public prosecutor.

With equal speed, his Insoumis comrades showed a beautiful spirit of solidarity. Moreover, deputies Boyard, Panot and others will have deployed great activity to try, if not to have the upcoming France-Israel football match banned, at least to ensure that it takes place in the worst security conditions. They obviously applauded the “Free Palestine” banner deployed by the ultra supporters of Paris Saint-Germain, with the latter's complacency, and falsely considered as “pro-Palestinian” and peaceful while it illustrates in a martial manner a warrior in keffiyeh.

Media reactions to the hunt for Jews in the streets of Anne Frank's town aligned quite noticeably with political sensibilities. If the right and center press has been impeccable, we will note that Liberation thought it necessary, without excusing, to insist on the fact that supporters of Maccabi Tel-Aviv, the day before what it is difficult to name other than a pogrom, would have behaved badly, who by attacking a flag Palestinian, who made inappropriate remarks.

My imagination is powerless to describe the media or political reaction if, by bold hypothesis, an observer tried to excuse a “ratonnade” by the fact that some supporters of Algeria had misbehaved.

For its part, the public service broadcaster spoke heavily at the start of the sequence of “clashes» and a journalist from France Info spoke on Friday “Maccabi ultras pursued by pro-Palestinians» without knowing how she knew that all the Israeli supporters being prosecuted had excessive opinions.

Of course, it is not our desire to make all football supporters look like distinguished pianists, but this type of comments are likely to want to water down the responsibility of hateful Islamist gangs, who have engaged in a hunt for Jews. organized and premeditated, in particular thanks to information obtained by taxi drivers who indicated in which hotels the Israelis were staying.

A documented article from Daily Telegraph dated November 8 describes in detail this premeditation of lynching: “The attacks on Jewish fans were planned and coordinated using Whatsapp and Telegram loops.” One of the messages says “Tomorrow, after the match, at night, second part of the Jewish hunt“. Another : “Tomorrow we take care of them“. Participants refer to Israeli fans as “cancer dogs“. For the rest, the Telegraph describes the scenes of extreme violence and hatred which justify the term that I used above and of which I am usually sparing.

My imagination is powerless to describe the media or political reaction if, by bold hypothesis, an observer tried to excuse a “ratonnade” by the fact that some supporters of Algeria had misbehaved… I do not envy his fate social or professional. Thus, during the incidents of the France-Algeria match, where the Marseillaise was copiously jeered and where violent Algerian supporters invaded the field, what would the rebels have said if deputies had justified a hunt for Arabs in the middle of Paris ?

The reaction of political personnel, apart from the aforementioned far-left party whose anti-Semitism no longer needs to be documented, cannot be criticized as the condemnation was unanimous.

But, that's how it is. Sartre, in his Reflections on the Jewish Questionexplained the anti-Semitic phenomenon well. On the pretext that there were Jewish thieves, all Jews had to be punished. On the far left, in the rebellious movement, this type of consubstantially racist reasoning applied to a few ultra supporters has even allowed them to rejoice in the correction administered to all Jews.

The reaction of political personnel, apart from the aforementioned far-left party whose anti-Semitism no longer needs to be documented, cannot be criticized as the condemnation was unanimous.

We will still focus on that of the head of state. Emmanuel Macron mentioned, without arguing “the most shameful hours in history» . But the hard truth forces us to confess that the zig and zag of his words make us dizzy and the fact that he refused to march against Islamic anti-Semitism means that we no longer march.

Undoubtedly the essential remains. For too long I have been saying and writing that Eastern hatred of the Western Jew cannot be decoupled from hatred of the white. The hatred of the Israeli is similar to that of the original French. I do not discern any kind of difference in hatred between hitting an Israeli in the streets of Amsterdam and hitting a Frenchman, Jewish or not, in the streets of Paris. And it is the same political offenders who excuse the same strikes here and there.

It is time to mercilessly block their path. It's five minutes to midnight in Amsterdam. It's the same time in Paris.